Distractions…

Posted: November 8, 2024 | Author: Rubicon Ronin | Filed under: Uncategorized |Leave a comment

For those of you who follow this site, you’ve noticed a decline in posts. Well, it was another off year for me regarding getting the Jeep out. But my golf game is improving! I promise to better keep you up to date about the Tahoe side of the Rubicon Trail and all those side trails next ‘season’.

Here is one of my distractions. It’s a brand new, 1/10 scale, Traxxas TRX4 High Trail 4wd remote control wheeler.

You probably noticed the body is a little shifted. I figured I needed a before picture moments before I started taking it apart.

This is a 2006, 1/6 scale, GI Joe Willys MB Jeep.

What happens when you try to combine the two? Here’s a hint, it took a lot of cutting!

Here’s the goal…but built as if Sarge had retired and gone into rock crawling.

For those of you familiar with these rigs, they are extremely similar to the real thing. Motor, trans, x-fer case, links, driveshafts, coil suspension, shocks, endless tire choices, etc. Although nowhere near as expensive as working on the real thing, they are equally as frustrating. And if you think those parts are small, try working on a 1/24 scale. This is my 1/24 C10 on the work bench (kitchen counter) as I figure out spring choices.

Check out the detail underneath the TRX4! While just taking that photo, I noticed one loose bolt and one MISSING bolt and spacer. Time to go back to work. Rock rails installed to protect the plastic body. Still rock rash everywhere.

I think I got pretty close. And check out that flex!

An earlier picture showing flexibility on the course I built for the 1/24 scale C10.

The granite slabs above Donner Lake are awesome for wheeling these things.

Not the most technical run of the day, but I got this one on video.

I hope all of you are getting in the wheeling you want, be it full size or scaled down.

Be safe this winter. Prep your rig (street and trail) as if you have to spend the night in it.

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Rubicon Ronin

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